Connecting device for vehicle draft attachments.



J. E. LOUGHRIDGE.

CONNECTING DEVICE FOR'VEHIGLE DRAFT ATTACHMENTS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.7, 1912.

1,051,138. Patented Jan.21,1913.

' Connecting Devices for Vehicle Draft Ati acter whereby the doubletree may be easily provided with a hammer head 10 terminat- EJNTED CONNECTING DEVICE FOR VEHICLE DRAFT ATTACHMENTS.

Application filed August 7,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnrn E. LOUGH- RIDGE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Tunnelton, in the county'of Preston and State of Vest Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in tachmentsJof which the following is a specification," reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relatesto connecting devices for vehicle draft attachments and has for its primary object to provide a simple, inexpensive and durable device of this charand quickly connected to the tongue of the vehicle. I I l A further object of the invention is to provide a tool of the above character which consists of comparatively few elements capable of quick assemblage, and which coact to produce a device of great efficiency and durability in practical use. With the above and other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel features of construction and the combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described, pointed out in the claims and shown in the accompanying drawings in which,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a device embodying the present invention showing the several parts in assembled relationship. Fig. 2 is a top plan 'view. Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line 33 of Fig. 2. Fig. d is a detail perspective view of the combined double tree pin and wrench.

Referring in detail to the drawing 5 designates an elongated U-shaped bar which constitutes a wagon clevis. To the intermediate portion of this bar a hook 6 is swiveled and is adapted for engagement in the eye or hook indicated at 7 hated to the tongue T of the vehicle. The ends of the clevis bar 5 are provided with cyliu'drical openings 8 to receive the shank 9 of one of thetool elements. One end of this shank is ing at one endin a claw 11. The other end of the shank 9 is provided with oppositely beveled faces to provide a chisel indicated at 12 and which may also be utilized as a screw-driver. Adjacent to the. latter end of the shank $7, the same is provided with a transverse opening 13 to receive a cotter pin 14 whereby the shank is retained in'the openings 8 of the elevis bar 5.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented J all, 21, 1913.

1912. Serial No. 713,926.

The member generally indicated by the numeral 15 servesthe purpose of a combined wrench and double-tree pin or bolt and consistsof a single-integral casting embodying a cylindrical bolt'or pm 16 having formed upon one of its ends a laterally extending U-shaped bar 17, the arms of said U-shaped 1 bar being equally, spaced from the bolt 16 and adapted for disposal between the ends of the U-shaped clevis bar 5 as shown in Fig. 2. The arms of the U-shaped bar v 17 are also provided with openings 18 and 19 respectively, the openin' '19 being rectangular to prevent the tool e ement 15 from turning upon the shank 9 which is disposed through said openings. At the point of juncture of the bolt 16 and the U-s ha 8d;

bar 17, a laterally extendin hatchet lies" 's formed, said hatchet hea projecting-n on i heopposite side of the bolt 16 from th'd U- shaped bar 17. The lower enll of thobolt 16 is tapered or pointed as indicated at 21 and provides a convenient punch for the purpose of perforating leather straps or boring holes in wood. -It will be noted that when the doubletree is connected. to the tongue-of the vehicle by means of my iniproved attachment, that the same is iocatd upon the pin 16 betWeen'thet-ransverse bolt 9 and the point-of the hatchet head 20 so that the pn 16 will act to force the point ofthe hatc et head into the vehicle tongue and-thereby hold the cl'evis 5 against lateral swinging movement. It will also be obvious that by means of this construction the arms of the U-shaped bar 17 and the bolt 9 are relieved of considerable strain, thus producing a de-- Vice which as a whole is very reliable and durable in actual use.

1 of the doubletree upon the in- In the use ofmy invention, the clevis bar 5 is attached to the tongue of the vehicle by means of the bolt 6 and theelement 15 arranged between the ends of the arms of said clevis bar in the manner above described.

The double-tree is nowarran ed upon the' nut. Obviously the hammer 10 and hatchet 20 will. be frequently employed in making various repairs to the vehicle. It will there. fore :be seen that I have produced a device whic .is of great convenience and serviceitbllllij 1n lpracncal use, as the same coinprises comparatively few elements which are all of simple form. It will also be appreciated that the device as a whole can be inexpensively produced and is'strong, durable and eficient in service.

modification without departing from the es- While I have shown and described the preferred construction and arrangement of the several elements, it will be obvious that the invention is susceptible of considerable sential features or sacrificing any of the advantages thereofi What-I claim is:, v

1. In combination, a U shaped clevis bar having openings inits ends, a cylindrical shank adapted for insertion through said openings and provided with a head upon one of its ends, means to retain the shank in theends of the clevis bar, and a bolt adapted for insertion through coinciding openings in the tongue and double-tree of a vehicle and providediwith'integral spaced adapted forinsertion through coincidingv openings in the tongue and doubletree of'a vehicle and provided with ahead on one end to be received between the arms of the clevis, said head also having an opening to arms, a cylindrical shank adapted for insertion through said coinciding openings and provided with a head upon one of its ends,

and retaining means dis osed through an coincide with the openings in the clevis aperture in the other en of said shank to retain the same in the openings of said clevis bar and the head of said bolt. ,7

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPHE. LOUGHRIDGE. I

lVitnesses WILLIAM Looonmoon, NINA LOUGHRIDGE. 

